DoctorDitko

Plus, he was a bad guy on Owlman's Earth!

There's a new option to Turn Off XP, which he use if willing until you guys catch up.

Wow! My wife was a huge BBT fan, I thought I'd seen every episode many times, but I missed this completely! Good catch!

Aw, darn it! You are absolutely correct. My numbers didn't add up! Thanks for the correction, and R.I.P. Fry's. T'was a cool place! Incidentally, this is why "eyewitness testimony" is unreliable. Our brains store memories with a lossy compression algorithm. Every time time you remember something, your brain has reassembled the event from whatever data points it saved. And our minds love to smooth things out into a narrative that feels right.

Yes, how many times have we seen nods to CoH in that famously derivative game, Real Life?* Eben Brooks, obviously, whose 2010 album "Geek Mythology" has nods to CoH, Firefly, and Babylon 5. The original Teen Titans show has a few call-outs, I remember a Cooke's Electronics appearance that I believe was even spelt that way. I recall CoH map nods in some Titans indoor missions, sewers and warehouses, I think. The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe guys have mentioned they used to hang out online in CoH, so podcasting was a logical step. Mercedes Lackey was a player, wrote some for the the game, IIRC, and she participated in a shared-blame-universe superhero series with a few nods. Formerly genericked player Jim Butcher's Furies of Calderon series has a serious superhero vibe during which his protagonist levels up rather noticeably. There's also a "melodic metal" -- that's a thing now -- album, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Heroes_(album) but I don't know if it's related, I haven't tracked it down.** Anyone notice any other call-outs? *For small values of real. ** Yeah, I could download it. But if you can't hold it in your hand, you don't own it. DRM is theft! Harrumph!

Let us hope for an appearance of the infamous Spawn Sensor and his partner Gordon "Gut" Buster. (They may not really be psionic, but they solve a lot off crimes.) There's Hadrian, the "Hermit" of San Francisco (he has the real deal OCD), and in nearby Poseidon, CA, there's Harmonica Moon and her dad. And can't we make room for the classic Rue B Rue gang in DA? (I'd love to see Thelma and Delphine pull the rubber mask off of Mot's ugly mug!)

Oy, sorry to hear it. NV have the best hardware, but someone decided to monetize the drivers, and recently most of them are all about streaming, "intelligent" (read: run on their servers in the cloud) configuration optimizing (oh did we spy? Just looking to see if you have any games we partnered with)... Disclaimer: I have been mad at NVidia since they bailed on the 3D api that ran lcd shutter glasses for stereoscopic effects. But this advice is still supporting NVidia hardware; it's just that you need to take their drivers to the vet and have them "fixed." I strongly recommend a free utility found on the legendary and trusted Guru3d.com, it's called Nvidia Slimmer. It will allow you to delete features you don't want from the NV driver package, optionally repackaging your own souvenir installer with just the features you want. Makes an excellent Mother's day gift for certain Mothers. So, you go to NVidia's site, download the latest WHQL driver package (~600MB these days), then run NVSlimmer and point to your download when it asks. Personally, I only install the driver itself and PhysX (Strange choice, I know, but there's this one game I really love that uses it...) When I'm done it looks like this: (Don't worry if it says it didn't recognize something, it just means the driver has some new features. NVSlimmer will still let you opt out of them, it'll just list them as unknown until the dev updates it.) That's an awful lot of software to put pretty pictures on your monitor! I use this to avoid the telemetry and such, but it is also helpful if the new drivers are beating up your machine. In my experience, the results are worth the extra step! I'm on a capped, wireless dialup-equivalent connection (Thanks again, Verizon!), so "little" things like chatty telemetry have their effects magnified.* (Read: make me freeze up during Hami raids!) Anyway, may this help your performance as well as your privacy! -Doc * Techie Coalition chat: I also turn off every protocol except IPV4 on my network interfaces. Amazing how NOT burning my limited bandwidth to test Quality of Service every half a second -- improves it!

A thousand blessing upon you! I have begged and dreamed for this! Thanks so much!

Grats! And welcome home!

I'm with youtuber Steve Shives: this is the best version of Superman in years! Hey, look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a guy who gives a shit about anyone but himself! Hurrah! Sorry about the covid hiatus, looking forward to them resuming. My only criticism is that Clark should give himself a heat-vision shave on his way to appear as Superman. "Wait, if you take the glasses off of Clark... And did you notice Superman stopped shaving right when Kent was fired?"

Agreed! Plus it's a spoonful of sugar for folks still upset about the limits placed on /enterbasefrompasscode! Yay devs!

Works brilliantly for me with Fedora 33 Workstation using Lutris (following the instructions on the forum).

I think the essence here has been stated: There are players who demand the star, and those who request the star to help XP or effectiveness, and we've all experienced both. The OP has an excellent point, in that the former are a serious pain in the ass not helpful, and the latter can be good for the team. (Granted, the label "team stealing" may be a bit over the top. Let's not be distracted by that!) For most teams, though, the star = team leader, and therefore the person who decides which missions to run (and how). The person who went to the trouble to arrange, recruit, and choose the mission should be the defacto leader. Whether it's the optimal setup or not, this is the person who went to the trouble to set up the team! If they decide to fling the shuriken to someone else, fine. If someone demands to take it, there's a button for that. (It looks like a boot.)

@The Philotic Knight He's one of my heroes. (Not as in " I play him," but someone I appreciate for all his work to make life easier on the average hero in the street!) I've been trying to install his CoH Modder on my Mac, (Ideally using the same WINE that HC installs and uses). if I figure it out, I'll gladly share the incantation. But if you are running any version of Wind**s: Go thou forth, and quest until thou hast downloaded the most holy CoH Modder! Only then shall thy quest be compleat! Then shall thy characters rejoice and feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chulapas.

OK, confession time: I've been a fan of a certain strange ex-surgeon since stainless Steve Englehart and fabulous Frank Brunner's classic run in the 70s. (Then I went back and discovered reprints of the Ditko/Lee run, and was hooked for life.) So one Halloween I went through the available powersets and picked everything I could see that fit the character, for an homage. Ill/Rad was what I eventually came up with. (This was before it became FOTM, honest!) There was also an amazing Roger Stern run, crowned with a 1-issue collaboration with Michael Golden, which included a hilarious reference to a popular movie series starring the good doctor. Oh, how we laughed! When HC arrived and I was once again home, I had been through the fun-house mirror and actually watched a really good film starring guess who! This included a new take on his powers, so I recreated him as an Illusion/Time controller. He was fun! Recently, I rolled an old school Ill/Rad version. And was blown completely out of my tights! Heals that hit more than a couple teammates! Debuffs you can feel! Anyway, it was all entirely too much fun, and I'm very glad I resurrected him!

True. Blasters can be built with just ranged attacks, but you have to skip some of the cooler powers in many sets. (Like nukes!) Actually one of the brilliant aspects to CoH is the overt attempt to defy the MMO "Holy Trinity" cliche. (As I was editing my many typos, MTeague made an excellent argument, so see above!) Addendum: How the heck do you guys make your citations link to the proper profile, with the neat oval and all?

Also, there are certain powersets which defy their archetype: Storm Defenders come to mind. They have 1 heal power, which is really more of a breakfree+minor heal for a single teammate, and they almost never need to use it. Everything else is sheer debuffing/crowd controlling/damaging -- albeit chaotic -- awesomeness. I have to laugh when Hailstorm Warning gets an invite, and they inquire as to her healing abilities: "Don't worry about healing. If you need healing, things have gone seriously south!"

Wow! Now I feel bad for not contributing to the last server donation! You have addressed all my concerns with the Sorcery pool, in a way that feels good but not OP. I use Translocation to position myself on the other side of a group of baddies, so my idiot Phantom Army will attack my intended target, rather than standing there looking damn pretty (I have the Phantom Mirror sfx, so I approve of their dress sense, if nothing else!). Mystic Flight lets me do that without needing to dip into the TP pool. It's the best TP in the game, now. (As an aside, the extended hover effect for TP is very welcome on my non-sorcerous alts.) RoP now should last through a whole fight, which is all I ask of it. Still haven't respecced, so Spirit Ward and Enflame are still theorycrafting to me, but they look good. Nice one, guys!

The only downside is needing to learn where the new files live. There are many upsides: better, faster patching, rational directory structure, better option granularity... The list goes on. Go for it, you'll be glad you did!

Might as well weigh in here, for what it's worth. Read the whole thread, but had to take my acrimony meds (I take Damitol). I had some downtime at work, so ran a mish on Beta (Hey, beta-testing software is part of my job! They never set a limit on what software!) and didn't respec first. On Sorcery I currently have Mystic Flight, Arcane Bolt, and Rune o' Prot. I greatly enjoyed the changes to Mystic Flight, and travel powers in general. Having Hover and MF together seemed like the old Hover/Fly binds, but without the bugginess. (I also enjoyed being able to speedily fly while standing up straight, as a sorcerer should). Great job! (Am I right in feeling the range increase on Translocation is overridden by the increased flight cap, such that it is no longer worthwhile to auto-fly, then periodically TP as a way to speed up travel? It was always marginal, but seems slower now.) This alt is an Ill/Rad, so short on the direct attacks. I use Fire APP and Arcane Bolt to take up the slack. I have now moved AB closer to the front of my tray, because it's no longer an "Aw, do I hafta?" attack. Not a fan of combos, but this one is simple and effective. With Containment, the sucker does triple damage! (If you guys do feel the need to adjust it, maybe have it proc only on powers that move points around? Even toggling Sprint on and off seems to fire it sometimes. It would be fine if heals, attacks, buffs, debuffs, and summons were the only triggers. (And eating Insps should be its own reward!) Nevertheless, wonderful upgrade! And, finally, RoP. I use it strictly as an "Oh, sh*t" power, so it seems fine to me. I'd prefer if the recharge and duration were based on traditionally magical numbers, like 42 (the answer!) and 69 (thrice 23!), though. I'll doubtless weigh in on Enflame and Spirit Ward, once I respec* but the idea that SW should have a small benefit to the caster seems reasonable, especially at that END cost. I also agree that the "run away" part of Enflame sounds counterproductive. Both those opinions are based on secondhand information, though, so apply salis atticus. Overall: What I'm qualified to comment on seems nice, thanks! * Is there any chance we could add a way to change specific power picks and slots to the Freebies menu? It would be a big help to folks like me who seldom have time for a full respec, but would like to help with testing.

Well, the Great Defense Nerf, followed by the Erectile Dysfunction Delivery (EDD) system and the Purple Triangles o'Doom, sure didn't help. But, yeah, this game had legs, if they hadn't been cut off at the knees by suits, it might've survived. Especially give the Superhero Renaissance Hollywood has discovered. tl;dr: Ignore Random Guy and laugh all the way to the bank (Mayhem mishes, LFG!).

Yeah, it would be great if we could use the mechanic they've introduced for Super Speed in Beta, to let us ignore citizens. Getting shoved out into the road by a little old lady -- then driven away by a truck -- is funny the first few times, but it gets old. Speaking of ignoring NPCs, I wonder if it would be hard to let us have an NPC ignore list? That Vanguard jerk would be my first!

Astrophobia is a real thing, usually interpreted as a fear of outer space, but can include a Lovecraftian fear of stars and the spaces between them! (Maybe didn't waste ALL the money I spent on a Psych degree!) And yeah, there are people who max out the scales for Introvert and Extrovert. I'm one. When I'm in an Extrovert mood, I love leading teams, despite my constant typos (the human capacity to understand despite typos is amazing!). In an Introvert mood? I'd rather join & pitch in. That said, there's a difference between organizing an ITF "for fun" and having a player say, "I'm 50, would you like me to take the star?" and "lol! You are 47! Gimme star or I'm out!" I believe OP is referring to the latter. And some players are gracious enough to "have" the star without "being" the star, if someone else has gone to the trouble to organize, recruit, and welcome the team. These folks tend to get friended!

The late, great RoboTechMaster ran Dr. Q teams that were an absolute BLAST! I thought it was insanity when someone advertised "Dr. Q TF forming, ~2 hours, WTF so 244 merits. Head to the D." What the hell. When I get to the D, RTM is buying ATT and MTP for everyone who doesn't have them. Proceeds to run the thing like a magic trick, all "Doc, you have Limo duty when we exit," and "I'll be using Incandescence once I'm in position." Still in awe. So, yeah, crazy, but in a good way, can be done! I'd personally track down each Dev and give them a dollar if my Bots MM could combine his pets into a Voltron. Make it tricky to do -- along the lines of getting a Shivan? -- fine by me. I'd just love to pull the Malta trick on the Malta JUST ONCE!

All I know is I tried a Regen Scrapper and was extremely underwhelmed. Could use a buff, IMO.